preschool
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See also: pre-school
Alternative forms
Etymology
Pronunciation
- (US) IPA(key): /ˈpɹiːskuːl/
Audio (General American): (file)
Adjective
preschool (not comparable)
- Of or relating to the years of early childhood before attendance at primary school.
Related terms
Translations
relating to years before primary school
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Noun
preschool (plural preschools)
- A nursery school.
- 2015, Timothy S O'Connell, Brent Cuthbertson, Terilyn J. Goins, Leadership in Recreation and Leisure Services, →ISBN:
- What could you do with the transumer trend in your agency? What about a coffee cart where parents pick up their children from preschool or classes?
- 2020 August 17, Perri Klass, “How Children’s Sleep Habits Have Changed in the Pandemic”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on August 17, 2020, The Checkup:
- In a study published in late July in the Journal of Sleep Research, researchers looked at how 1,619 children in China were doing in terms of sleep. The children, ages 4, 5 and 6, were recruited from 11 preschools in the province of Guizhou, in the city of Zunyi, about 650 miles from Wuhan.
- (Philippines) A school including nursery and kindergarten. It is succeeded by elementary school.
Translations
nursery school — see nursery school
Verb
preschool (third-person singular simple present preschools, present participle preschooling, simple past and past participle preschooled)
- (transitive) To provide nursery school education for.
- (intransitive) To undergo nursery school education.
See also
Preschool education on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
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